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18 Jul 2023
News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

life that includes rest, relationships, and a rewarding career. Is AI Coming for Your Job?In a post-AI world, where an algorithm can draft marketing copy—or even pop songs and movie scripts—anything seems possible. Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

learned from her depression after a movie she worked on “bombed;” and how to be not necessarily happy all the time, but happier. Here's a transcript of the full conversation. Jeffrey Goldberg: Please join me in welcoming to the stage... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

16 Apr 2024
News

Netflix Enters Its Dan Lin (MBA 1999) Era

head of film at Netflix, which details the challenges and opportunities ahead for him at the streaming giant. Lin is a longtime producer (notably of The Lego Movie and Sherlock Holmes) and founder of Rideback, the production company he... View Details

17 Jan 2024
HBS Case

Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues

Think Netflix’s tiers for its streaming services, ranging from the cheapest standard-with-ads option to its premium pricing plan, which offers unlimited movie viewing and the highest picture quality without commercials. “Tiered pricing is... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Retail

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Oct 2014
HBS Seminar

Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

turned on by the vision or the strategy in the sense that it taps into some desire deep in the passions of human beings—for example a desire to build the world's best automobile or to create a movie or play that will affect humans for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

management consulting. What case made an impact on you and why?“The Black List.” The case is about an entrepreneur who notices how easy it is for great movie scripts to be rejected or unnoticed, and begins wondering how he can build a... View Details

21 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

the number of players globally tops 3 billion, the paper says. “People don’t realize how pervasive games are,” Amano says. “They are larger than music and movies combined.” Amano and Simonov analyzed the decisions made by 2.5 million... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting

24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

who have "seen this movie before." They likely had no issue raising money and were selective on who their investors were and who sits on their board. They will know how to get the flywheel moving incited by past mistakes or... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

10 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

Female representation in movies has been consistently low, with women making up only 4.5 percent of directors and 14.4 percent of writers for top-grossing films. Worse, many women have endured sexual harassment and abuse. In October 2017,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

01 Dec 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

by social media or the risks AI poses in areas like biosecurity or cybersecurity. When I saw the movie Oppenheimer it struck me that 12 years passed from the Trinity test to the IAEA’s establishment in 1957. We don’t have 12 years. Our... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Web

Skydeck - Alumni

takes us inside the kitchens of her native Dali Bringing Markets to Myanmar With 25 years of experience in private sector development, David Brunell (MBA 1962) offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition to a market economy The Business of Lego Batman Lego... View Details

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

Owning that and being ready is something they’re really interested in. Morrell: Some of these lessons seem so obvious. This idea that the hedonic treadmill will never lead to happiness—this is the theme of every Disney movie I watched as... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

of the French firms which initially dominated the cinema industry. By the 1920s the industry, now concentrated in Southern California, was able to benefit from the size of its home market and its control of distribution markets to dominate both the American and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

15 Nov 2022
Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

perpetrator’s mission. Some examples of collaborators include those assistants and actors who kept silent even as movie producer Harvey Weinstein assaulted women. Also in this category, says Bazerman, are legislators like Lindsay Graham... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

been connected before creates the potential to produce something new and useful." The question is how to reap the benefits of that while minimizing the inevitable misunderstandings. "Trying to make a movie about the Tang Dynasty for a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

numerous book, television, and movie deals, along with several marriage proposals, all of which she has turned down. Six months after the accident, Crotty returned to the United States to become an assistant principal at St. Mark's School... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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